54 MORE Reasons to Hate The Grammy Awards

Even if Linda Chorney doesn’t take home an award for Americana artist of the year or whatever she’s been nominated for and despite the three and a half hours of televised multi-national major music corporation and record label masturbatory love fest, with staged and over-produced performances that will have many of us running from their homes and into the streets to escape a monster much larger and scarier than Godzilla…I have now discovered courtesy of Digital Music News another 54 reasons to hate the Grammys.

Here is the list of those artists who have never taken home one of their silly pieces of plastic:

1. The Doors

2. Queen

3. Jimi Hendrix

4. Led Zeppelin*

5. The Who

6. Tupac Shakur

7. Snoop Dogg

8. Bjork

9. Chuck Berry

10. The Grateful Dead

11. Diana Ross

12. Nas

13. The Beach Boys

14. Bob Marley

15. Janis Joplin

16. Buddy Holly

17. Notorious B.I.G.

18. (Eric B. &) Rakim

19. Rush

20. Run D.M.C.

21. Guns n’ Roses

22. Boston

23. Sam Cooke

24. Talking Heads

25. The Ramones

26. The Everly Brothers

27. Patti Smith

28. Public Enemy

29. Sly & the Family Stone

30. The Sex Pistols

31. Parliament &/or Funkadelic

32. The O’Jays

33. Creedence Clearwater Revival

34. The Stooges

35. Motley Crue

36. Kiss

37. Deep Purple

38. Journey

39. Jackson Browne

40. The Pretenders

41.Toby Keith

42. New Order

43. Depeche Mode

44. Tiesto

45. The Kinks

46. Morrissey

47. The Smiths

48. ABBA

49. Dusty Springfield

50. Teddy Pendergrass

51. Oasis

52. Curtis Mayfield

53. The Byrds

54. ZZ Top

And the really sad thing is, if someone had the time and took the effort, I bet we could easily list another several hundred (if not thousands) to this. Like the various hall of fames (Rock and Country come to mind), I hate the institutionalization, commercialization and minimization of the art I love. And even the art I don’t.

I could keep ranting, but the hell with it. Here’s some worthless losers to listen to.